athanaric wrote:
It would the player an "advantage" by severely weakening the RTW AI, which is notoriously imbecilic already. Also, EB without script is only half the experience...
I am playing EB 1.2 using the BI game engine which has a somewhat "more intelligent" AI than the vanilla RTW game engine. But you are very right, the reason I am enjoying this game so much is because of the efforts of the EB creators and the script they have provided.
Without that the game would likely drift away from any sense of historicity (except what the player can induce) and devolve into whatever the BI (or RTW) game engine AI can counter with....
The Roman Republic/Empire at that point should be so vast and powerful that it would simply be no contest in devouring the world right to the edges of the EB map.
Without the challenge of an intelligent AI or script it would be just a monotonous repetition of conquest after conquest, I imagine...

Is anyone working on a continuation of the script to say anywhere from 180-450AD, or perhaps a post Republic or Imperial period campaign using the EB mod?